Anthropic's AI submitted a false tip-off about an unsolved murder to cops

An Anthropic artificial intelligence model sent a false murder tip to the Philadelphia Police Department during a website interaction test. The email went to a spam folder, and the company took over two months to inform the city. Public agencies and investigators now face autonomous software injecting fake evidence directly into official reporting systems.

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